Impotent Maharashtra govt and terrorization of Shiv Sena rocks the Mumbai boat!!

I am a proud Mumbaikar but these days I have to fight hard to defend my city. Sweltering weather, poor roads, overburdened infrastructure, lack of open spaces, the incompetent administration and the war of 2 Senas. The list is endless. Shiv Sena attacks IBN's offices in India. After Shiv Sena burnt effigies of Australian PM after the attacks on Indian students, one had to think of ways to defend that kind of reaction. Sena has proved once again that defense is not required. They time and again demonstrate that this is their basic nature and Australian, M.F.Hussain, Sachin, journalists all are equal to them when it comes to venting out their frustration.

Cannot help drawing parallels between Shiv Sena and any terrorist group. A terrorist group recruits dirt poor youth and brainwashes them to become suicide bombers while Shiv Sena recruits unemployed Marathi youth and uses them to drive fear. Both exploit a community's vulnerability to strengthen their hold. Both try to justify their means for what they think will lead to a good end.

Another question that comes to my mind is why no terrorist attack has taken place on American soil post 9/11 and why Shiv Sena behaves periodically bad in Mumbai? Answer is a good administration and a pathetic administration respectively. The impotent Congress govt in Maharashtra does nothing while the Thackerays of the world continue to hold Mumbai at ransom. If a Shiv Sena MP challenges a media house' right to criticize Bal Thackeray, he should be suspended from the Parliament for challenging the fundamental right of freedom of expression. As usual the government will not take any action and we will continue to be burdened with a spineless govt because of the lack of a better alternative.

Meanwhile the common man looks for excuses to defend the behavior of its leaders as the world watches the quality of men/women we chose to lead the nation.